Just like classes, parties and the occasional drinking episode,living with roommates is part of the college experience and forevery few good roommates, there’s always a bad one.

“Dear Neighbor” is a dark, funny book that tells thestory about one woman, her irritating male neighbor and how toproperly deal with a rude, crude neighbor who won’t take thehint.

Written by Jennifer Miller, Michele J. Wolff and Linda Marr,”Dear Neighbor” starts off with a very friendlyexchange between the two neighbors involving a package delivery.The friendly relationship begins to go south immediately. Beforelong, cars are dented, police are called and payback is in theworks.

This short, witty book is unusual because it’s madeentirely from the notes that the woman leaves on the door of herneighbor. Readers follow along as the notes go from polite, tocivil, to frustrated, to purely vengeful.

Practically every college student can vouch that not only canroommates be tough to live with, but also tough to choose.

“If you know somebody well, usually you can see it will beOK to move in with them,” said Mark Kerfoor, a junior physicsmajor. “The biggest thing is just to be open-minded. But italso takes a lot of luck.”

And for the most part, that’s all there is to it. Manystudents have a few horror stories.

“If you’re not close enough friends, it’sdifficult,” said Karen Goodwin, a junior chemistry major.”My first semester up at Humboldt, I roomed with a girl Iwent to high school with, and she was clueless.”

Goodwin said her roommate, a member of one of the school’sathletics teams, used to wake up, turn on all the lights in theroom, take a shower and leave &- leaving the lights on and theshower for Goodwin to clean up. In the end though, it worked outfor Goodwin.

“After the first semester, she left,” Goodwin said.”And I got a random roommate who’s now one of my bestfriends.”

“Dear Neighbor” has a funny solution to any problemone could have with a roommate or neighbor: revenge.

The book is short, but has no problem getting the point acrosswith its simple and realistic notes that are complete with art oneach page that resembles a note taped to a door. This quick readwould make a great gift for someone about to move into a new livingsituation or for someone who’s interested in disposing of thejerk next door.